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Jose Luis Correa: “Because that great Californian Ronald Reagan said: We got to trust, but we got to verify, too.”

On the recordJuly 9, 2019
Because that great Californian Ronald Reagan said: We got to trust, but we got to verify, too.
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Jose Luis Correa
Democratic · California

Editor's note · Context

Correa references Reagan to emphasize the importance of verification in trust.

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